Scene 1 · Nether CanyonGary's cell. The Broker stands in the doorway, cigar glowing, clipboard open. Gary is a husk — sitting against the far wall, jaw long since healed crooked, eyes vacant, mouth occas…Scene 2 · Nether CanyonShadow's cell. The man who picked imaginary locks for ten centuries. His good hand still moves in the dark — click, click, click — working tumblers that aren't there. The Broker en…Scene 3 · Nether CanyonJukes's cell. Suppression runes still glow faintly on the iron at her wrists. She sits in a meditation pose, hands open, palms up, feeling for magic that was taken from her a thous…Scene 4 · Nether CanyonChuck's cell. The anxious one. A thousand years in a void with nothing to be anxious about hollowed him out completely. He sits perfectly still — the stillness of someone who has r…Scene 5 · Nether CanyonRick's cell. The leader. A thousand years of reciting six names like a prayer until the names became sounds and the sounds became silence. He sits like a king with no kingdom, like…Scene 6 · Nether CanyonJezz's cell. The last. The drummer in the soundless room. A thousand years of trying to keep a beat with no sound, no echo, nothing but the slowing pulse of her own heart. She sits…Scene 7 · Nether Safe HouseSatan's court. The throne room — reclaimed from Vivian, redecorated in his image. Satan lounges on the throne in his crisp white suit, skull cane across his knees, tail coiling laz…Scene 8 · Nether Safe HouseSatan's theatrical reveal. He spreads his arms wide. The court — unseen but heard, a vast crowd of demonic courtiers murmuring in the shadows of the throne room's edges — leans in.…Scene 9 · Nether Safe HouseSatan ascends back to his throne, delighted. He raises the skull cane high. The court ERUPTS — a roar of thousands of demonic voices from the shadows, the most excited hell has bee…Scene 10 · Nether CanyonThe deepest cell. The seventh layer. The lowest, hottest, darkest point in all of hell, closest to the molten core. Vivian remains exactly where she was left a thousand years ago.…
